
Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that are identifiable from space. These microscopic plants armor themselves with external plates of…

Looking more like an alien landscape than an Earthly landscape, the Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona is North…

This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) thermal-infrared composite image, the first high spatial resolution multi-spectral thermal infrared…

In a view from 1965, the full moon is out dazzled by the lights of the launch gantries on Missile…

A detail of the Eagle Nebula shows a portion of a pillar of gas and dust in this photo from…

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the…

In this stunning vista recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop…

This image of the western part of the city of Pasadena, Calif. – home to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory –…

This natural-color satellite image shows the meeting place of Earth’s second largest and second smallest continents: Africa and Europe. It’s…